This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a
phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to …

Prosody conveys discourse-level information, but the extent to which prosodic cues
distinguish different kinds of information-structural concepts remains unclear. The prosodic …

The study described in this paper aims to investigate whether monotony has a negative
impact on audience comprehension. Whereas in previous research intonational deviations …

Brazilian Portuguese (BrP) bare nominals (BNs) have received much attention in the last two
decades within the community of scholars studying this language specifically as well as from …

Linguistic experiments have investigated the nature of F0 span and level in cross-linguistic
comparisons. However, only few studies have focused on the elaboration of a general …

Abstract Information structure deals with the question of how—and specifically, in what order—
we choose to present the informational content of a proposition. In English and many other …

The idea that there are syntactic domains that are 'islands' to extraction is a venerable one,
going back to the early days of generative grammar. The classical view is that island …

In this thesis a data-driven and linguistically interpretable intonation model for the automatic
analysis and synthesis of fundamental frequency (F0) contours was developed. The model …

This study investigates variations in speech prosody and eye movements and their potential
correlations in processing discourse information of map direction in Mandarin Chinese. A …

This dissertation aims to extend our knowledge of prosody–in particular, what kinds of
information may be conveyed through prosody, which prosodic dimensions may be used to …